PreviewsIssue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26
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Conservation Confidential
A Biologist Investigates the Clash Between Progress and Nature
Lorne Fitch
With wit, sharp critique, and vivid storytelling, Fitch explores the clash between environmental stewardship and industries such as forestry, mining, and agriculture, and calls on readers to rethink how to value natural resources – as gifts to protect rather than commodities to exploit.
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Contraband Bodies
Jide Salawu
Nigerian-raised, Edmonton-based Salawu explores migration, displacement, digital kinship, and ideas of home in this debut collection of elegiac and resistant poems that cross borders and map memories in images of bodies and birds, of roads and rivers.
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Contraband Bodies
Jide Salawu
Nigerian-raised, Edmonton-based Salawu explores migration, displacement, digital kinship, and ideas of home in this debut collection of elegiac and resistant poems that cross borders and map memories in images of bodies and birds, of roads and rivers.
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Crohnic
Jason Purcell
Charting two years of treatment for Crohn’s disease, these poems explore the landscape of a medicated life. The speaker connects deeply with the forest and rivers, learning from the cycles of life, most particularly the winter, a time of rest and waiting, and draws parallels between the degradation of the land and of the body.
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Crossing Into Canada
Stories from Two Generations of US War Resisters
Alison Mountz (Editor)
These powerful first-hand accounts offer an insider look at how two generations of U.S. war resisters – ones fleeing conscription during the war in Vietnam and later ones resisting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – travelled parallel routes but met very different outcomes when seeking refuge in Canada.
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Crossing the Phantom Pass
A Cancer Journey
Julia Kwong
With academic rigour and accessible prose, and centring knowledge as power, Kwong recounts her experience of receiving a breast cancer diagnosis and undergoing treatment while her father is in the last stage of metastasized prostate cancer. She reflects on the medical process and comments on the health-care system while exploring the uniqueness, as well as the commonalities, embedded in each cancer patient’s experience.
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Cruising the Downtown
Celebrating Edmonton’s Queer History
Kristopher Wells (Editor)
Extending the work of The Edmonton Queer History Project, this book is a collaborative history that moves through civic landmarks, sites of queer resistance, nightlife, and activist spaces to celebrate the people, places, and moments that have shaped and continue to shape the thriving 2SLGBTQ+ community in Edmonton.
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Curling Rocks!
Chronicles of the Roaring Game
John Cullen
This lighthearted, detailed look at the sport of curling and its history recounts everything from ill-fitting fashions and odd scandals to insights on the greatest matches ever played, showing that curling is not only inherently funny, but also chronically underestimated as a sport of skill and strategy.
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Danica dela Torre, Dream Detective
Mikaela Lucido, Joanna Cacao (Illustrator)
The second in this paranormal mystery series sees Danica dela Torre and her best friends (and fellow detectives) Jack and Kennedy on the case of her stolen relikaryo, an amulet that keeps her safe from evil spirits. To find it, she enters a parallel realm and encounters Detective Gray, the author of an influential investigator’s guide, and from there the case expands to include another mystery, one that throws fear into her family and requires a deep understanding of Filipino lore.
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Days of Feasting and Rejoicing
David Bergen
Identities blur and moral compasses waver in the murky atmosphere of the expat community in Thailand, in this tense and unexpectedly violent literary crime thriller. Esther Maile, after witnessing the drowning of her friend Christine in Bali, takes on Christine’s life, confusing Christine’s friends and family and most of all local Thai police captain Net Wantok, who is investigating not only Christine’s death, but also further disappearances.
